Rating Group: Christian Action Network

2004 Lifetime Score

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 78%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 89%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 97%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 93%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 99%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 99%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 97%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 36%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 98%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 79%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 91%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 1%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 9%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 7%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 4%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 11%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 5%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 6%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 2%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 3%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 8%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 4%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 6%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 98%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 7%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 97%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 16%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 8%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 97%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 11%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 7%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 8%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 5%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 96%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 5%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 97%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 6%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 6%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 88%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 92%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 8%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 9%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 11%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 9%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 7%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 11%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 28%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 12%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 94%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 93%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 16%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 98%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 92%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 6%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 92%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 84%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 98%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 95%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 85%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 93%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 45%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 2%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 100%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 28%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 97%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 6%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 93%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 2%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 94%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 99%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 98%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 87%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 93%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 2%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 54%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 8%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 7%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 6%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 3%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 94%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 11%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 25%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 98%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 92%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 94%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 98%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 97%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 94%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 58%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 74%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 84%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 18%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 6%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 5%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 5%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 17%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 33%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 19%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 20%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 24%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 36%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 7%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 20%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 31%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 31%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 5%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 19%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 81%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 93%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 92%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 10%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 99%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 15%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 11%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 89%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 10%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 62%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 39%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 97%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 30%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 94%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 99%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 71%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 37%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 38%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 12%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 84%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 2%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 70%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 4%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 74%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 34%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 92%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 85%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 6%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 93%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 74%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 37%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 33%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 92%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 92%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 73%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 35%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 20%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 54%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 8%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 11%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 75%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 54%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 4%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 16%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 68%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 33%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 14%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 13%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 24%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 4%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 6%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 11%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 23%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 7%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 12%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 27%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 36%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 30%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 96%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 82%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 31%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 93%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 71%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 58%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 88%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 98%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 97%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 97%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 31%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 61%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 9%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 13%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 13%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 28%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 86%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 94%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 64%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 91%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 91%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 17%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 64%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 16%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 92%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 96%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 14%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 16%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 89%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 94%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 30%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 100%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 94%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 98%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 95%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 96%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 96%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 93%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 93%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 85%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 98%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 28%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 3%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 97%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 21%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 6%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 97%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 98%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 8%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 93%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 58%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 2%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 95%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 97%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 10%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 93%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 17%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 11%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 4%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 4%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 15%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 95%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 4%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 13%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 12%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 5%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 93%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 14%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 89%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 93%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 12%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 85%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 65%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 96%
Gary Ackerman Other 5%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 4%
Todd Akin Other 87%
Wayne Allard Other 96%
George Allen Other 92%
Thomas Allen Other 17%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 14%
Brian Baird Other 10%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 70%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 96%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 72%
Charlie Bass Other 38%
Evan Bayh Other 25%
Bob Beauprez Other 99%
Bob Bennett Other 91%
Shelley Berkley Other 32%
Howard Berman Other 4%
Marion Berry Other 66%
Judy Biggert Other 53%
Michael Bilirakis Other 99%
Jeff Bingaman Other 33%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 64%
Kit Bond Other 96%
Henry Bonilla Other 92%
Mary Bono Mack Other 67%
Leonard Boswell Other 32%
Rick Boucher Other 25%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 50%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 97%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 98%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 96%
Dan Burton Other 94%
Steve Buyer Other 87%
Robert Byrd Other 27%
Chris Cannon Other 87%
Dennis Cardoza Other 30%
Julia Carson Other 11%
Edward Case Other 13%
Mike Castle Other 48%
Ben Chandler III Other 44%
Chris Chocola Other 97%
Hillary Clinton Other 8%
Norm Coleman Other 90%
Kent Conrad Other 32%
Jon Corzine Other 5%
Jerry Costello Other 65%
Christopher Cox Other 92%
Larry Craig Other 98%
Robert Cramer Other 67%
Barbara Cubin Other 95%
Randall Cunningham Other 99%
Artur Davis Other 31%
James Davis Other 22%
Jo Ann Davis Other 100%
Lincoln Davis Other 82%
Thomas Davis III Other 83%
Bill Delahunt Other 5%
Thomas DeLay Other 97%
James DeMint Other 60%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 86%
Norm Dicks Other 8%
Chris Dodd Other 3%
Elizabeth Dole Other 93%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 67%
John Doolittle Other 97%
Byron Dorgan Other 38%
David Dreier Other 82%
Chet Edwards Other 24%
Vern Ehlers Other 89%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 95%
Philip English Other 87%
John Ensign Other 63%
Bob Etheridge Other 52%
Lane Evans Other 7%
Terry Everett Other 98%
Tom Feeney Other 97%
Russ Feingold Other 4%
Michael Ferguson Other 78%
Mark Foley Other 77%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 34%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 65%
Barney Frank Other 5%
William Frist Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 90%
Jim Gibbons Other 85%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 51%
Paul Gillmor Other 74%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 10%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 99%
Bart Gordon Other 51%
Mark Green Other 95%
Judd Gregg Other 84%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 96%
Jane Harman Other 13%
Katherine Harris Other 97%
Melissa Hart Other 98%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 90%
Robert Hayes Other 97%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 94%
Joel Hefley Other 96%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 97%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 25%
Maurice Hinchey Other 29%
David Lee Hobson Other 88%
Pete Hoekstra Other 93%
Thomas Holden Other 79%
Darlene Hooley Other 34%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 91%
Kenny Hulshof Other 99%
Duncan Hunter Other 95%
Kay Hutchison Other 89%
Henry Hyde Other 93%
Daniel Inouye Other 7%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 70%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 8%
William Jefferson Other 49%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 7%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 94%
Nancy Johnson Other 36%
Tim Johnson Other 84%
Paul Kanjorski Other 50%
Ric Keller Other 97%
Sue Kelly Other 67%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 2%
Mark Kennedy Other 87%
Patrick Kennedy Other 26%
Dale Kildee Other 57%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 5%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 91%
Herb Kohl Other 4%
James Kolbe Other 40%
Dennis Kucinich Other 9%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 89%
Tom Lantos Other 8%
Steve LaTourette Other 81%
Frank Lautenberg Other 7%
James Leach Other 44%
Jerry Lewis Other 86%
Ron Lewis Other 97%
Joe Lieberman Other 3%
Blanche Lincoln Other 26%
John Linder Other 92%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 95%
Dick Lugar Other 91%
Don Manzullo Other 99%
Jim Marshall Other 77%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 75%
James McCrery III Other 86%
John McHugh Other 75%
Michael McNulty Other 39%
Martin Meehan Other 7%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 10%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 12%
Brad Miller Other 14%
Alan Mollohan Other 57%
Dennis Moore Other 22%
Jack Murtha Other 55%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 98%
Sue Myrick Other 96%
Ben Nelson Other 80%
Robert William Ney Other 93%
Anne Northup Other 92%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 95%
James Nussle Other 97%
Jim Oberstar Other 59%
Dave Obey Other 24%
John Olver Other 7%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 59%
Thomas William Osborne Other 97%
Major Owens Other 7%
Michael Oxley Other 94%
Ron Paul Other 62%
Donald Payne Other 22%
John Peterson Other 93%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 91%
Todd Platts Other 62%
Richard Pombo Other 96%
Earl Pomeroy Other 59%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 62%
Deborah Pryce Other 73%
George Radanovich Other 96%
James Ramstad Other 56%
Ralph Regula Other 74%
Denny Rehberg Other 96%
Richard Renzi Other 97%
Silvestre Reyes Other 31%
Thomas Reynolds Other 74%
Mike Ross Other 57%
Steve Rothman Other 14%
Jim Ryun Other 98%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 33%
Rick Santorum Other 76%
Paul Sarbanes Other 3%
Jim Saxton Other 92%
John Shadegg Other 98%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 83%
Christopher Shays Other 42%
Donald Sherwood Other 81%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 41%
Ike Skelton Other 79%
Gordon Smith Other 67%
Olympia Snowe Other 36%
Vic Snyder Other 12%
Hilda Solis Other 5%
Mark Souder Other 98%
Arlen Specter Other 77%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 31%
Pete Stark Other 2%
Cliff Stearns Other 99%
Ted Stevens Other 81%
Ted Strickland Other 37%
Bart Stupak Other 66%
John Sullivan Other 96%
John Sununu Other 80%
John Sweeney Other 72%
James Talent Other 72%
Tom Tancredo Other 95%
John Tanner Other 51%
Ellen Tauscher Other 6%
Charles Taylor Other 72%
Gene Taylor Other 60%
Craig Thomas Other 96%
William Thomas Other 78%
Todd Tiahrt Other 97%
Ed Towns Other 10%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 22%
George Voinovich Other 83%
James Walsh Other 93%
Zach Wamp Other 97%
John Warner Other 77%
Diane Watson Other 6%
Anthony Weiner Other 8%
David Weldon Other 98%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 90%
Gerald Weller Other 89%
Robert Wexler Other 11%
Heather Wilson Other 91%
Lynn Woolsey Other 5%
David Wu Other 39%
Albert Wynn Other 18%

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